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| Name | Job Title | Organisation | Abstract Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Paul Campbell | Principal | Cogentia | A National Smart Infrastructure Data Strategy: barriers and opportunities |
| Jon Curry | Group Manager, Managed Data Centres | Telstra | Sustainable IT and Data Centres at Telstra – Driving change for economical and ecological benefit |
| Glenn Gore | CTO | Melbourne IT | Improving Efficiency past Virtualisation and Blade Computing |
| Bob Hayward | Chief Technology & Innovation Officer | CSC | Embedding Corporate Responsibility Practices into IT |
| Phillip Nyssen | Partner | Shape Consulting | Environmental business benefits through Leadership, Culture and GreenIT |
| Craig Roussac | General Manager, Sustainability, Safety and Environment | Investa Property Group | Buildings come clean: it’s time to see the data! |
| Bianca Wirth | CEO | Computers Off | The Future of Green IT |
| Tom Worthington | TomW Communications | Teaching Sustainable ICT Competencies with Tablet Computers: My first year's experience setting the global standard for green ICT professional education |
Abstracts and Biographies
Australian governments will soon be exposed to unprecedented fiscal and environmental pressure building and managing new public infrastructure in response to a rapidly changing climate. By necessity, this infrastructure design and operation must be coordinated across precincts, cities and regions to reduce costs and environmental impacts. The complexity, scale and speed of these planning challenges dictate that agencies must be able to utilise all relevant datasets irrespective of their source and ownership. Today, this would be impossible due to the lack of data and interoperability standards and the absence of a legislative framework. As government responds to the impact of climate change on communities the emphasis will shift from individual assets to a built environment dominated by ubiquitous sensors, tags, meters and other embedded devices. These devices will communicate directly with other devices via dynamic and self organising communication links. Smart Infrastructure on this scale will exceed our capacity to directly interact with the data tsunami that will be generated. So data will be automatically collated, filtered, abstracted and modelled before planning experts interact with it. Our experience in built environment modelling shows that the adoption and sharing of data is much harder to achieve when a national framework is absent. This presentation will explore the barriers to producing a National Smart Infrastructure Data Strategy and the steps needed to overcome these obstacles.
Dr Paul Campbell has been a director of technology companies spanning software engineering, web development, multimedia and information architecture since 1984. Paul is now the Principal Consultant at Cogentia, a consultancy specialising in the commercial impacts of climate change, green IT, ‘smart’ infrastructure and the digital economy. Paul is also the Executive Officer of the ICT Industry Workgroup, a body that acts on behalf of Queensland IT associations in advising the Queensland Government on governance, procurement and industry development policy. Paul serves on many government committees and has been instrumental in setting up four landmark IT industry associations.
Telstra, like many Australian Enterprises is facing similar challenges with respect to energy consumption, its carbon footprint and the impact on the environment. As part of an Enterprise wide approach Telstra IT are tackling the problem head on with a number of initiatives targeted at driving improved energy efficiencies and environmental outcomes. This presentation will look at the success Telstra has had with IT Virtualisation and Consolidation across our Information Technology groups to deliver on our environmental objectives.
Jon Curry has over 25 years experience in the IT industry covering an array of disciplines starting from the ground up as a computer operator in 1985 on a DOS/VSE mainframe. Jon rapidly progressed to a Network Systems Programmer and finally an MVS sysprog before heading off to the UK where he worked for Avis Europe, British Telecom and Nuclear Electric on a number of challenging projects including the privatization of the UK electricity industry. On his return to Australia Jon worked in various Senior Mgmt roles with a number of well known International and Australian icons including Arnotts Biscuits, Unisys, Coca Cola Amatil, Mercantile Mutual, Prudential & MLC Insurance companies. During this time Jon leveraged his technical experience to move into program management and the art of outsourcing management. Jon has spent time on both sides of the IT fence as a customer buying IT Services and products and as a Provider selling and supporting Software, Networks and Services. Having completed a 3 year stint with Telecom New Zealand managing the support of complex security services for a number of Australian Blue Chip companies Jon joined Telstra in the position of General Manager – Managed Data Centres. Jon oversees an operation that covers a significant national footprint of both owned and leased data centre premises. He has been instrumental in driving a multimillion dollar data centre improvement and expansion program that has delivered in excess of 7500 sqms over the past three years. His team is currently working on the design for future Telstra data centres that Jon believes will see a new bench mark in data centre efficiency in Australia.
Having virtualised your Data Centre and installed the latest in Blade computing technologies, what new developments and advances in technology can allow you to continue to increase the efficiency of IT environment? In this session Glenn will talk about what can be done to further improve the efficiency of a Data Centre that is already using common approaches around Virtualisation and Blade Computing. Glenn will also share what Melbourne IT has been doing and will be doing over the next several years push for even greater efficiencies in a large multi-tenanted infrastructure platform that supports tens of thousands of customers in a cloud environment.
As Melbourne IT’s Chief Technology Officer, Glenn Gore is responsible for innovation and implementation of new technologies. Glenn is passionate about new technological advances and how they will change the way we live and work. An advocate for virtualisation, automation and green computing, Glenn has designed and managed highly scalable, efficient computing platforms for the past 15 years for global Internet companies.
Many IT executives have taken the first steps towards increasing the level of environmental sustainability of their IT operations. But few have really embedded a culture of corporate responsibility into IT, and most are looking for guidance on practices and techniques to do this. Looking beyond "Green IT" this presentation provides some road maps and suggestions on how to progress corporate responsibility within you organisation, using IT as a catalyst for change.
Bob Hayward is the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer for CSC Australia and CSC Asia. In this role, he is responsible for the overall direction and business management of CSC’s technology offerings, product strategies and innovation programmes in the Asia/Pacific region. Prior to joining CSC, Bob was a Director of IT Services for KPMG Australia and was Senior Vice President and Research Fellow Asia Pacific for Gartner, being the first employee of Gartner in this part of the world. He previously held executive positions with Candle Corporation, distributed Tivoli Systems in Asia Pacific through Qualix, his own company. Bob is a co-founder of InQbator on the Gold Coast, Australia, and is also the co-founder and continuing non-executive director for Asia Online, an Asian-based start-up focused on developing automated machine translation technologies.
What impacts the delivery of environmental business benefits most: Leadership, Culture or GreenIT? How do these aspects interrelate and serve as the foundation to reduce environmental impact? This presentation will address these questions and discuss how you can incorporate the findings into your organisation.
Investa Property Group became the first major real estate investment institution to publishing building environmental performance data in a dynamic, interactive format through its 2009 Sustainability Report. More recently, the group has worked with leading interaction designers and web developers to create an online data visualisation platform that enables visitors to generate insights and form judgements about how responsibly a property is being operated. Will online data visibility change the way buildings are managed? Will it contribute to reducing environmental impacts from the built environment?
Craig Roussac has group-wide responsibility for the sustainability, safety and environmental management platforms at Investa Property Group, one of Australia's largest and most respected owners of commercial property. He was recently appointed inaugural director of the Investa Sustainability Institute which conducts action research for sustainability in the built environment through collaborations with leading universities and research institutions. Craig is also a part-time PhD candidate at the University of Sydney working in the architectural science discipline. His primary research interest is in how technologies and non-technological factors can combine to achieve significant greenhouse gas emission reductions from the operation of buildings.
What does the future of Green IT hold? Is it a fad or is it here to stay? What are the elements that make up green IT now, and how will this change in the future? This presentation will answer these questions and provide a future view on sustainable technology development and implementation.
Bianca Wirth is the CEO of Computers Off, a non-profit initiative dedicated to reducing technology’s environmental impact, and founder of Green IT Strategy, the only green IT information portal for Australians. Bianca has a degree in Environmental Science and is a certified provisional Environmental Auditor. Since 1998 Bianca has held technology roles in major consulting companies and ISVs globally. An accomplished speaker and writer, Bianca has spoken and written about technology and green IT issues to a wide range of audiences from industry, business, and government, and to academics, individuals and school children on the importance of a greener, sustainable IT future.
The first globally available and accredited Green ICT course for computer professionals commenced in January 2009. Sponsored by the Australian Computer Society, as part of an international program for professional education, the course is also now run at the masters’ level by the Australian National University and several other Australian and North American institutions. Course designer Tom Worthington discusses how e-learning is used with mentored and collaborative techniques to deliver professional education on mobile devices.
Tom Worthington is an ICT consultant to government and industry, a teacher and expert witness in court cases. Tom advises on, designs and teaches vocational and university courses on green ICT, the design of accessible mobile emergency web sites, e-commerce and professional ethics. In 2008 he was commissioned to design the world first globally accredited, postgraduate professional e-learning course on sustainable ICT. Tom is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University. He is a past president, Fellow, Certified Professional and Honorary Life Member of the Australian Computer Society and a member of the ACM and IEEE-CS.
